Readings

Kana: ヘイ、ヒョウ、もち、もちい
Romaji: hei, hyō, mochi, mochii
Kana
Romaji

Meaning

rice cake

Stroke Diagram

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Kanji Info

Stroke Count:  17
Radical Number:  184
Frequency: 
Grade: 
Skip Pattern:  1-9-8
Korean Reading:  byeong
Chinese Reading:  bing3
Unicode:  9920
JIS:  7136

Indexes

Nelson Index: 5172
New Nelson Index: 6698
Spahn Hadamitzky Index: 8b6.4
Four Corner Index: 8874.1
Daikanwanjiten Index: 44220
Daikanwanjiten Index and Page: 12.0414
Kodansha Kanji Index: 2269

Words

(もち、もちい、かちん、あも)
sticky rice cake
尻餠 (しりもち)
falling on one's backside (behind, bottom)
餅肌 (もちはだ)
soft skin; smooth skin
草餅 (くさもち)
rice-flour dumplings mixed with mugwort
黄金餅 (こがねもち)
millet dough cake; millet mochi
焼きもち (やきもち)
jealousy; roasted rice cake
餅網 (もちあみ)
grill or grate for toasting rice cakes
鏡餅 (かがみもち)
mirror-shaped mochi, usu. a pair stacked in order of size with a daidai on top, used as a New Year offering, then cut and eaten on January 11.
絵に描いた餅 (えにかいたもち)
pie in the sky; castle in the air
三日夜の餅 (みかよのもち)
Heian-period ceremony where a newlywed groom and bride eat a rice-cake on the third night after the wedding ceremony
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